Postdoctoral researcher PRESERVARE - Huygens Amsterdam

The Huygens Institute (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) is looking for a Postdoctoral researcher for the project PRESERVARE (32 hrs) in The Netherlands

PRESERVARE. Large-scale conservation of perishable foodstuffs in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 is a European Research Council-funded Consolidator Grant (ERC CoG) led by Dr. Marieke Hendriksen and hosted by the Huygens Institute/NL-Lab of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam.

The project researches the production and exchange of academic, trade, and lay knowledge of food preservation through a unique combination of archival research, digital techniques, archaeological finds, and historical reconstructions.

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a background in the history of early modern knowledge, preferably with a focus on chemistry, to join the project on 1 February 2025. The reason for this early recruitment is that we would like the postdoc to be involved in the hiring process of two PhD candidates who will start at the same moment. This four-year position is aimed at developing a history of concepts and practices of fermentation in the early modern Low Countries through preservation as an analytical category and the use of reconstructions.

The postdoctoral researcher will physically be based at the Huygens Institute in Amsterdam, in the departments Knowledge– and Art Practices and NL-Lab, taking up a central role in the interdisciplinary research team consisting of historians, data scientists, archaeologists, and food conservation experts.

To apply, we expect the candidate to write a research proposal that fits within the overall framework of the PRESERVARE project. Close collaboration with all team members is a prerequisite. The postdoctoral position will be mentored by Dr. Marieke Hendriksen.

The position starts on 1 February 2025.

Financieel Projectcontroller - NIOO-KNAW - Wageningen

Als ervaren projectcontroller ben je veel meer dan een cijferaar. Je bent een essentiële schakel tussen onderzoekers en financiële verantwoordelijkheid. Je bent verantwoordelijk voor het financiële beheer van diverse projecten en zult betrokken zijn bij de volledige projectcyclus, vanaf de aanvraagfase tot en met de financiële afronding. Je ondersteunt onderzoekers bij het verkrijgen van financiering, bewaakt de budgetten, en adviseert projectleiders gedurende het proces waarbij je gevraagd en ongevraagd advies geeft. Met jouw expertise en kritisch inzicht zorg je ervoor dat de middelen effectief worden besteed en dat eventuele financiële risico's tijdig worden gesignaleerd en aangepakt.

Je werkt zelfstandig, maar maakt deel uit van een hecht team van financiële professionals die jouw energie en enthousiasme delen. Binnen deze stimulerende werkomgeving krijg je alle ruimte om jezelf verder te ontwikkelen en je stempel te drukken op onze projecten. We geloven in een positieve en inclusieve cultuur, waarin diversiteit wordt omarmd en waar jouw ideeën en bijdrage worden gewaardeerd.

Medewerker Crediteurenadministratie - NIOO-KNAW- Wageningen

Als medewerker crediteuren zorg jij er samen met je collega’s voor dat de crediteurenadministratie op orde is en alle informatie op tijd en juist wordt verwerkt. Daarbij heb je een belangrijke rol binnen de inkoop en autorisatie-administratie en ben je verantwoordelijk voor de financiële kant van de webshop van ons Vogeltrekstation. Je hebt een grote mate van zelfstandigheid en verantwoordelijkheid, maar je vindt het ook heerlijk om met jouw collega’s samen te werken in een informele en open werksfeer.

Je werkzaamheden zijn:

• Je verwerkt de inkomende leveranciersfacturen en bewaakt de voortgang van autorisatie en betalingen. Dit doe je door middel van analyse op openstaande posten en actief oplossen van de problemen in elke fase van het proces;
• Bij onduidelijkheden van de facturen (of bij de juiste verwerking hiervan) en bij openstaande posten zoek je actief contact met je collega’s en ook met de leveranciers;
• Je maakt inkooporders en verzendt deze aan onze leveranciers;
• Je controleert en verwerkt maandelijks de interne doorbelastingen;
• Je zorgt voor de aflettering van jouw balansrekeningen, analyseert de verschillen en adviseert de controller over een oplossing. Zonder verschillen maak je meteen het Balansdossier;
• Je houdt de financiële mailbox bij en handelt binnenkomende mailtjes af;
• Je ondersteunt je collega’s binnen Financiën door het (al dan niet tijdelijk) overnemen van allerhande afdelingswerkzaamheden zoals analyse, rapportage en het uitzoeken van zaken;
• Je draagt bij aan het kwartaal- en het jaareindeproces. Bijvoorbeeld in het uitzoeken en aanleveren van informatie aan derden (KNAW, Accountant), maar ook in het maken van de aansluitingen van de sub-administratie met de financiële administratie.

Je bent werkzaam in een klein enthousiast team met vijf andere financiële professionals waar volop ruimte is om je verder te ontwikkelen van ondersteunend naar “in control”. Tijdens vakanties vervangen we elkaar zodat er altijd een goede balans is tussen werk en vrije tijd.

Research Support staff - Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience Amsterdam

What you will be doing
Primary functions of this position are:

• Supporting researchers during experimental procedures (rodents)
• Refinement of experimental procedures (rodents)
• Performing animal care and husbandry procedures (rodents)
• SOPs writing
• Work with Animal Facility databases and data collection
• Inclusion in weekend roster to take care of animals (on average once every 5 weeks)

Postdoc Project NWO OC M Global Business and ERC Voices of Resistance - IISH Amsterdam

Projects

The Global Business of Slave Trade – Patterns, Actors and Gains in the Early Modern Dutch and Iberian Slave Trade
and

Voices of Resistance: A Global Micro-Historical Approach to Enslavement across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean

Vacancy: Postdoc Position

Proposed Selection Committee

• Brenda Orsel or another colleague from HR, Human Resources Department, Humanities Cluster (HUC), KNAW
• Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, Project PI, and Senior Researcher, IISH
• Matthias van Rosssum, Senior Researcher, IISH, and Member of Project Team
• Leon van Wissen, Globalise, WP Lead Semantic Contextualization
• Sanne Muurling, project manager Voices of Resistance

The International Institute of Social History (IISH-KNAW) is searching for a

Computational Historian / Data Scientist (0,8 fte)
We invite especially candidates with a background in (Computational) Digital Humanities, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval or Data Science with an interest in Humanities research. The position is vacated on Postdoc level. We thus invite applications of candidates with a PhD to apply, but also encourage other relevant candidates to indicate their interest through an application.

What will you bring in?
We are looking for a data scientist with experience in the humanities, or a historian with relevant computational or data science skills. You are comfortable working in a team and are communicative. You expand on existing methods and collaborate with DH specialists and historical domain experts to translate project needs into practical solutions. You provide good documentation of your work to facilitate the collaboration between projects and reusability. You have experience in writing well-documented, reusable Python code using Jupyter notebooks and GitHub. You are also able to change and adapt existing code and tooling to process your own material and you are comfortable using the command line.

We consider experience with digital source material and colonial archives as an advantage, but not a prerequisite. You are proficient in English, and preferably in Dutch, Portuguese or Spanish.

What will you do?
With your skills you will contribute to two historical research projects that explore the history of slavery and slave trade in Asia, being The Global Business of Slave Trade (14 months) and Voices of Resistance (13 months). You will contribute to the research teams by applying and expanding methods for text recognition, entity and event detection, and by extracting and analyzing historical data. For this, you can apply and expand methods that are used and developed within the GLOBALISE project, most notably the pipeline for text recognition and layout analysis (Loghi) and the models and annotation schemes for entity and event detection (more information: https://github.com/globalise-huygens/). You will adapt these models for the recognition of layout and text, as well as for entities and events, to non-Dutch digitized archival material, most notably Spanish and Portuguese. You will collect the digital source material, and in close collaboration with the GLOBALISE team you will organize the creation of new ground truth for htr and semantic annotation, update relevant handwritten-text, layout, entity, and event recognition models, and apply techniques for data extraction that facilitate the research on slave trade, slavery and racialization. Your work will be therefore development in directly collaboration with various colleagues from the three projects involved in this initiative and data will be shared and made available in open access.

Context
The project Global Business of Slave Trade: Patterns, Actors and Gains in the Early Modern Dutch and Iberian Slave Trade studies the organizations of slave trading by the Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish in the Indian Ocean, Indonesian Archipelago, and the South China Sea. It examines by whom and how the slave trade was organized, who gained and lost, and what the economic impact of these commercial streams was. The project Voices of Resistance: A Global Micro-Historical Approach to Enslavement across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean studies slavery, enslavement and racialization in the cases connected to the Portuguese, Spanish and French Asian empires.

What do we offer?’
You will work in the Research Department of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam as part of The Global Business of Slave Trade and Voices of Resistance projects. The IISH is internationally leading as research institute in the study of global labour history and slavery, and as an international archive in social movements. You will work in close collaboration with digital infrastructure projects of GLOBALISE (based at the Huygens Institute in Amsterdam) and Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (IISH). The IISH and Huygens Institute are part of the Humanities Cluster (HuC) of the KNAW, operating at the forefront of the digital humanities.

How to apply to this vacancy?
You can apply to this position by submitting the following documents:

• A Curriculum vitae
• A motivation letter
• Contact details of two references (email and phone number)

Deadline and application
Responses can be submitted until 20 May via the application button.

Please ensure you submit all requested documents (CV, Motivation Letter, contact details of references). These can be combined in one or two files (pdf or word).

The interviews will most likely take place in the second half of June.

Applicants will be assessed on the following criteria: a) familiarity with the scientific field; b) job motivation; c) originality; and d) compliance with the vacancy requirements.

For more information about this Postdoc vacancy, please contact Filipa Ribeiro da Silva (project

leader and supervisor) at filipa.ribeirodasilva@iisg.nl. A more detailed description of the projects can be found together with the advisement of the Vacancy on the website of the IISH, under “jobs”/“vacatures”, at https://iisg.amsterdam.